My sweet first baby turned 4 in January. She is determined, independent, and head strong. She’s creative and funny. She has an insatiable appetite for someone to play with her. (Luckily, her playmate is growing as well!) She’s tall and sassy and loves her dresses.
Avie also loves Rainbow Dash. She loves Elsa more now, but Rainbow Dash was her favorite at birthday time. So we made it a birthday theme. (In case you don’t know, Rainbow Dash is the dare devil pony from the My Little Pony show. Not exactly the one I would think Avie would identify with most. You know, the girly dresses and heels, and the refusal to wear pants.)
The thing with Rainbow Dash is that she is, well… a rainbow of colors. So to make an awesome cake, I needed a rainbow of colors, but only a small bit of each color. I took the easy way out and bought frosting. Then I colored a bit of each color and then used plastic baggies to make piping bags for each color.
During this time, of course, I’m making ice cream cake! It’s a lot of back and forth to the freezer. I may have to make a tutorial some day. For now, the simple process is a spring form pan. Using a spatula, you put slightly softened vanilla ice cream up the sides. Freeze. Then chocolate ice cream in the bottom about 1/3 of the depth of the pan. Freeze. Then mix Oreo cookies crumbled (without the filling) with shell chocolate sauce. This goes in the next 1/3. Freeze. And then top with vanilla ice cream. Below shows a cross section.
Now to decorate! A nice little rainbow, some clouds, “Happy Birthday Avie,” and then Rainbow Dash!
This was for the birthday party, but Avie wanted cotton candy. So I made her her own 4″ ice cream cake with cotton candy ice cream and animal crackers with white chocolate. And gave it a nice little rainbow of its own.
Here’s a cross section of it. She loved it!
Of course, the best part, was the party! We had a few friends over to play and eat cake. (Someone had to eat all that ice cream!)
AND Avie got a sweet play house, which she plays in almost every day! Happy 4th Birthday Avie baby!